Purpose

To consolidate, disseminate, and gather information concerning the 710 expansion into our San Rafael neighborhood and into our surrounding neighborhoods. If you have an item that you would like posted on this blog, please e-mail the item to Peggy Drouet at pdrouet@earthlink.net

APTA attributed ridership growth in Indianapolis, Denver, Salt Lake
City, and Riverside, California, to service increases. In cities like
Atlanta, San Francisco, and Seattle, APTA says the increasing number of
transit trips probably had more to do with economic growth.

As interesting as it is to track fluctuations city by city, any
change in the New York region, which accounts for about a quarter of all
transit ridership in the country, will make a mark in the national
numbers. Transit savant Yonah Freemark
points out that growth in New York City subway ridership — an
additional 107 million subway trips in 2014 — is slightly more than the
total national increase of 101 million transit trips.

Looking at different modes, the biggest growth was in light rail
ridership, which climbed about 4 percent nationally. Bus ridership was
down 1 percent.

According to Freemark,
growth in rail transit ridership is part of a long-standing trend. Rail
now accounts for 46 percent of total boardings in the U.S., up from 35
percent in 1996.